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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 - The Conflict Reveals New Promo Video; Bleach Manga Gets New Rock Musical Adaptation in 2024
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The Jump Festa '24 event on Sunday revealed a new promotional video for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 - The Conflict. The event also announced a new rock musical adaptation of the original manga titled Rock Musical Bleach ~Arrancar the Beginning~, slated for 2024, eight years after its last rock musical adaptation.
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The Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 - The Conflict anime will air in 2024.
The anime's first cours premiered in October 2022, and ended in December 2022 with a one-hour special that combined the anime's 12th and 13th episodes. Viz Media is streaming the anime on Hulu in the U.S. The anime is streaming on Disney+ internationally, and Ani-One Asia is streaming the series in many Asian countries.
The anime's second cours (quarter of the year) premiered in the United States on Hulu, Latin America on Star+, and in select other countries internationally on Disney+ on July 8.
The anime will run for four cours with breaks in between.
The anime covers the rest of the original manga up through its ending. The Thousand Year Blood War arc is the final arc of the manga, and covers volumes 55-74
The first Rock Musical Bleach play opened in August 2005. The manga's latest rock musical adaptation titled Rock Musical Bleach - Mō Hitotsu no Chijō (Rock Musical Bleach: Another Above Ground) ran in Tokyo and Kyoto in 2016.
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that ran for 366 episodes from 2004 to 2012. Viz Media obtained the television and home video rights to the anime in 2006. The series premiered with an English dub in Cartoon Network's Adult Swim that same year, and eventually aired all the episodes by 2014. Crunchyroll and Tubi TV are no longer streaming the original series, but Hulu is streaming the series.
The anime franchise also includes four films and two OVAs. Additionally, the franchise has also inspired video games, novels, stage plays, and a live-action film that opened in July 2018.
Source: Jump Festa '24 livestream
